Around 2:15 p.m., Rockland police said the boy was guided to a vehicle on Lower Reed Street facing east toward Division Street by a man who he thought was a friend of his father.

Rockland police said the man then drove the boy around the towns of Rockland and Abington until he told the victim to get out of the vehicle around 2:40 p.m. in the Lake Street area of Abington.

The boy was not injured, police said, and when he was let out of the vehicle he recognized the neighborhood and walked to the police station.

Police said the man was not a friend of the boy's father, and when the father arrived at the school to get the boy, he alerted school officials and police that he was missing.

At a news conference Tuesday evening, police said they believe the child was chosen at random, and fear this could have been a "dry run" for a future child abduction.

The kidnapper was described as a white male with a thin build with white hair that was longer in the back than on the top. He was driving a four-door sedan that was white or gray, and the vehicle has white or silver wheels or hubcaps.

The Rockland Police Department is asking anyone who was in the area of Memorial Park School Tuesday afternoon at dismissal time and noticed the vehicle or man to please call the Rockland Police Department Detective Division at 781-871-3890, ext. 122.

Also, police said, anyone who was in the area of Lake Street in Abington between 2:25 and 2:45 p.m. Tuesday and saw the man or vehicle to call the Rockland Police Detective Unit.

Police said officers in plain clothes will be stationed at Rockland school Wednesday.

AND THE WARNING TONIGHT FOR EVERYONE IN TOWN. THIS IS WCVB NEWSCENTER 5 AT 11:00. NEWSCENTER 5 HAS THE BREAKING DETAILS. WE ARE IN ROCKLAND TONIGHT. MARY? WE HEARD IT FROM THE ROCKLAND CHIEF A SHORT WHILE AGO AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS THAT THE NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY IS SAFE TONIGHT, BUT HE WAS A PRODUCTIVE TODAY BY A TOTAL STRANGER IN WHO POLICE DO FEAR MAY STRIKE AGAIN. HE IS IN FINE CONDITION. HE DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE SUFFERED ANY OF THESE. ROCKLAND POLICE TALKING ABOUT THE NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO WAS TAKEN FROM MEMORIAL PARK SCHOOL TODAY BY A COMPLETE STRANGER HE MISTOOK FOR HIS DAD'S FRIEND. HE WAS IN HIS NORMAL ROUTINE. ON TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS, HE DOESN'T TAKE THE BUS HOME. HE LOOKS FOR HIS FATHER WHO PICKS HIM UP FROM THE SAME SPOT ON THE CROSSWALK EXACTLY WHERE THIS VEHICLE HAPPENED TO BE PART. HE LOOKED UP, WALKED IN THE DIRECTION. THE MAN OPENED THE DOOR FOR HIM. THE ONLY TIME HE WAS TOUCHED WAS WHEN HE PUT HIS HAND ON HIS BACK AND ESCORTED HIM INTO THE BACK SEAT. POLICE SAY THE MAN DROPPED THE BOY OFF ON LAKE STREET IN HADDINGTON AND TOLD THEM TO GET OUT. THE CHILD TO WALK HIMSELF TO THE NEARBY POLICE STATION. THE SUSPECT IS DESCRIBED AS A WHITE MAN OF THIN BUILD WITH WHITE HAIR AND A WHITE OR GRAY SEDAN. WE ARE CONCERNED THAT THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A DRY RUN FOR SOMEBODY CONSIDERING AN ABDUCTION. AGAIN, IN THIS CASE, THE BOY WAS RELEASED AT ABOUT -- AFTER ABOUT 30 MINUTES OF DRIVING AROUND. POLICE ARE HOPING TO RELEASE A SKETCH OF THE SUSPECT TOMORROW MORNING. IN THE MEANTIME, THEY ARE ASKING PARENTS, PLEASE COME FORWARD. CONTACT POLICE IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN THE SUSPECT AT DISMISSAL TODAY.

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